Freezer Paper Screen Printing

If you’ve been in it with your Valentine for the long haul, it can be more meaningful to make a creative piece for the home you share to celebrate Cupid’s day of love. After all, home is where the heart is.

Freezer Paper Printing is an easy way to print something in a similar method to screen printing, but it’s much faster and cheaper. And you can use the freezer paper printing for more than just pillows. It’s great for artwork on canvas, quick t-shirt printing, place mats, table cloths, you name it!

Use X-Acto knife and cut out the gray striped areas. This is the area that will be painted.

Iron your fabric so it’s smooth.

Iron on some extra freezer paper around your heart cut-out as a protective border. This will protect your paint from over-spraying onto the fabric edges.

Spray your metallic paint in thin light layers until the object is filled.

Wait for paint to dry. You can use a blow dryer or fan to speed up the drying process.

Once dry, peel off freezer paper.

**Note: You can’t iron spray paint but your design should remain on your fabric even when washed (may fade slightly). If you want a permanent metallic look, we recommend metallic fabric paint.

For our pillows, we printed on fabric and then constructed pillow cases. Here’s the quick how-to:

Cut your fabric to the exact dimension of your pillow filler or old throw pillow. Pin the two printed sides together face to face, sew up three sides and about 2″ on either side of the part you’ll leave open. Trim the seam allowance (extra fabric) and flip the cover right side out. Stuff the pillow filler in, and sew up the 4th side of the pillow using a blind stitch.

How will you get creative with freezer paper “screen” printing? We’d love to see your projects! Send a note to hello@brit.co and share pics on Twitter.

About the author

Amanda Cey is the Founder and CEO of ABCey Events, a San Francisco based Private and Corporate Event Planning company that services the technology industry and has produced events for Oracle, Adobe, Apple, Tesla, Razorfish, Accenture, and more.
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